Example sentences of "he gave [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he gave one back to me . |
| 2 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 3 | Pushing her back into her chair , he gave her back her glass and it was a measure of her distress that she actually reached out and took it . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , reasonably so , I suppose , but after the meal , not after he gave me back the hat . |
| 5 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 6 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 7 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 8 | Shortly after the friend appeared , he gave himself up . |
| 9 | He gave himself up this morning after eleven hours of negotiations with police . |
| 10 | He gave himself up at High Down Prison , in London . |
| 11 | The next day he gave himself up to police . |
| 12 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 13 | Just as Christ also loved the church , and he gave himself up for it . |
| 14 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 15 | Eventually he gave it up , stood up and put on his hat . |
| 16 | His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views . |
| 17 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 18 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
| 19 | And then when he gave it up when his wife died , he stopped it then and they changed it into the West Mainland Horse Breeding Society . |
| 20 | I gave it back to him and he took some , then he gave it back to me . |